What's this war about anyway?

Excellent article today by Dahlia Lithwick at Slate.com

"The endgame in the war on terror isn't holding the line against terrorists. It's holding the line on hard-fought claims to absolutely limitless presidential authority."

How believable was it?

This is great. Slate has one of those visuals where Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are rating the believability of Bush's speech as he gives it. Watch those swings at the beginning!

"The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people" YES!
"And it is unacceptable to me" Yeah right!
"Our troops in Iraq have fought bravely" YES!
"The Iraqis need our help" ?!?!
"I've committed more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq" NO WAY!